Xiao Ma's Newsletter Archive

Mon, Nov 19 2018

Hello and welcome to my Nuzzel newsletter!
Xiao Ma
(Hacker/scientist. I believe the ultimate goal of technology is to help people live better. Build systems @Medium @PatternInsight PhD @IllinoisCS @UCSanDiego)

Here's a simple idea I bet most Americans agree with: No qualified high school student should ever be barred entrance to a college based on his or her family's bank account. Yet it happens all the time. When colleges review applications, all but a…

Yoshua Bengio is a grandmaster of modern artificial intelligence. Alongside Geoff Hinton and Yan LeCun, Bengio is famous for championing a technique known as deep learning that in recent years has gone from an academic curiosity to one of the most…

A new message popped onto Blair's screen from a friend who helped with his website. “What viral insanity should we spread this morning?” the friend asked. “The more extreme we become, the more people believe it,” Blair…

When Alex Jones crashed the congressional hearings looking into big tech platforms back in September, Lord Voldemort kept coming to my mind. Even if you haven't read the Harry Potter books, you probably know that almost no one in the wizarding…

Before there was a spark, there was the wind. On the morning of Nov. 8, as the sun rose over the isolated mountains in the Sierra Nevada, gale-force winds tore through the canyon. A fire outpost on the Feather River recorded blasts of 52 mph…